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Joint House Call #37: March 26th, 2024

Recording: March 26 2024 Joint House Call.mp4
Slides: March 26th, joint house call slides

  • Members of the Collective Feedback Commission were selected: 10 citizens and 15 high-context delegates.

    • Here’s the list of candidates: Introducing the Collective Feedback Commission, everyone in the lists will be reached out with the form they need to opt-in. Forms must be completed by March 31st.
    • The Collective Feedback Commision will not be replacing feedback from the forums, Discord, ect, but will be in addition to.
    • Commission members will get notified today to opt-in via a form

  • The partnership team has the goal to get 5-10 OP Chains onboard this year.

    • It’s most likely that as part of that process they’ll get grants, read the forum post Onboarding OP Chains to Optimism Governance to know more about the approach to aligning incentives and active participation in Optimism Governance.

  • Retro Funding rounds for this year were announced!

    • Transitioning from broad scoped rounds to more narrowly scoped rounds:
      • Onchain Builders: May
      • OP Stack: late July/August
      • Governance: August
      • Dev-tooling: October
    • Contributions which fall outside of the scope of upcoming retro rounds include consumer facing tools, education initiatives and events. The Collective can still support these contributions via Token House Missions
    • Similar to the last round, there will be an application review process to determine which projects are eligible to participate in each round, working as a filter to ensure every project is relevant to the scope of each round.
    • The amount of rewards for each round will be announced 8-12 weeks before its start.
    • Each round will last about two and half months.
    • Projects can apply for multiple categories.
    • The application process will be similar to the last round with some improvements based on feedback.
    • Both individuals and teams are considered on rounds, there will be some minimum threshold within the scope to qualify, more information will be posted in 2 or 3 weeks.
      • We’re looking for individuals to be judged based on their contributions specifically, rather than their brand.
    • The decision to include more rounds will be based on how scalable different experiments are and how they perform
    • Check the Contributions Board to see things you can built that are align with Retro Funding: Builder Ideas | Optimism
    • For more information read the forum post or the Optimism blog

  • Read RetroPGF3 Learnings & Reflections for a comprehensive summary of all the things learned from RetroPGF3 and the attempt to synthesize the main takeaways from this round and what will be done moving forward.

  • Cycle 19: Final Grants Roundup:

    • 314 applications total in this cycle. 62 were left out on the intake filter. 252 applications were scored by at least two reviewers. And ended up with 104 finalists that every reviewer scored and 43 grantees.
    • All non-granted finalists from the first round will be considered for round two if the mission request is open, no need to reapply, they have to incorporate all feedback they got on their application.
    • Grant applications are extended to March 29th 19:00 UTC. This does not modify the penalty for late submissions, anything submitted after March 25th will be considered late.

  • Optimism Foundation new members:

    • Governance Onboarding Lead: Maxwell maxwell@optimism.oi, op_mxwell on Telegram
    • Citizenship PM: Emily @OptimisticEmily on Telegram, Emilyfurlong.eth on Farcaster
    • Governance Operations Coordinator: Julian Julian@optimism.io
    • Research and Experiments Lead: Eliza
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